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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I used to take the very same paternoster daily, too! The trick is to jump half a metre up or down to give the other person plenty of time to comfortably enter or leave.
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with some Scottish bloke. He said he doesn't understand why his Polish girlfriend keeps learning English when she speaks it perfectly well. 'That is simple,' I replied, 'suppose yo
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I'm not sure whether I constructed my argument properly, but it was about the average person being less productive due to working in a language that isn't second nature to them. German probably was second nature to von Neumann. In
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I see. That could be interpreted either way, but let's give henvic the benefit of the doubt and assume they were talking within the context of the above comment, i.e. Europe. edit: Not that it makes the argument sound: https:/&#x
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I didn't downvote you but it is probably because you are making a straw man argument, countering something GP didn't imply. There is probably some truth to some cultures being more shy when it comes to speaking. I'd wager it
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
As much as I appreciate that people are chill about mistakes, I'm not sure if I agree. To me, as an English language learner, the grammar is trivial to learn and it is an anchor that gives me at least some reassurance. One of my most u
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
The fact that von Neumann, a polyglot fluent in English, kept writing in German while at Princeton and left translation to his assistants, makes me wonder how much productivity is lost to Europe not having a lingua franca native to all citi
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I agree. To say we're able to influence the system is to assume free will, which I believe is an undecidable problem. Ultimately this is just a matter of semantics, which makes this thread rather pointless.
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
Microsoft was sued by Sun in 1997. The pranksters may not have realized they are publicly taunting their future opponent, but Gates probably saw it that way.
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
To be fair Kubernetes itself probably has 17k lines of bash, and it is a good thing. It is the first go-to project that I use as a reference for bash scripting best practices. edit: wc reports 47023 lines in *.sh[1], out of which 23836 are
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I should have mentioned that my experience with stop-start is only with manual transmission cars that start the engine upon touching the clutch, sometimes before it is in full contact and usually before I'm ready to release it. If I&#x
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I happen to be one of the people who didn't like it until I got used to it. The reason is simple - if you'd been dependent on an unreliable car in the past, starting the engine is associated with all sorts of uncertainties. Starte
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
You can't turn it off in the EU. The configuration is reset as soon as you power off the car. Considering this, assuming your claim is true, there should be vast amounts of damage to vehicles in the EU, which there isn't. In other
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
Assets download link[1] is in the footnotes for anyone who'd like to view the Turing machine in high resolution. [1]: 80MB zip https://b-o-e.uk/TheNew50-PressPack
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
Please consider elaborating with your thoughts on the content of this author's writing instead of dismissing it for who they are.
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
Thank you, that is an interesting insight. Personally I don't find the Empathising–systemising theory convincing, it seems as a false dichotomy to me. On the other hand I just remembered that my father's use of the word systematic
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
This article fills a gap in my vocabulary for someone who shares some traits associated with ASD but doesn't suffer from any negative effects, i.e. is not in the scope of the medical autistic spectrum. The word is systemizing or being
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
Forgetting the handbrake is a common cause of minor accidents. Half the automotive 'fail' videos on the internet are people forgetting the handbrake. The habit of never leaving the engine on neutral greatly reduces the probability
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
It is not wise to rely on handbrakes. Firstly handbrakes aren't designed to hold any significant load. Just search for an image of a handbrake cable. It is good enough most of the time, but it will bite you once you have a fully loaded
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
The NHS investigate people for abusing their authority as medical professionals. I don't know how they divide the work with the police, but they do have their own people for investigations.
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
Is there anything that makes the following sequence of events unlikely? 1. google.com.au redirects to google.com 2. google.com stops indexing australian content 3. australians barely notice, except perhaps for the latency 4. australian cont
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
I set up a revolut account for currency exchange in 2018 and finally moved to use them as my primary bank in 2020. Never had any significant issues. Recently I was setting up a Revolut Business account and I didn't get a notification e
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
The paper is available here if anyone's interested: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
The report I'm quoting[1] estimates the lockdown scenario to cost 182k QALYs in mental disorders, 190k QALYs in musculoskeletal disorders, and 157k QALYs in cardiovascular disorders.[1] Note that if your only risk factor is being 65 ye
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
That is what I said in the second half of my comment. These two statements are not contradictory. To be precise, the cost of lockdown is 1/3 of the cost of unmitigated covid. The cost of lockdown is mostly borne by the young and health
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by jozvolskyef 6y ago
The British Office for National Statistics concludes that the impact of the lockdown in terms of QALY (quality-adjusted life year) is higher than that of the disease itself: > from March 2020 to more than five years from now, the impact
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by jozvolskyef 7y ago
I'd recommend inliner for the last step: https://www.npmjs.com/package/inliner
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by jozvolskyef 7y ago
Are you sure climate isn't the main factor? If I were homeless I'd go to SF over NYC due to the mild winters.